Browsing posts by Gabe Mariani

No TV show or book or genre adequately conveys the kind of thing I am going for this week, so you get an extra long (but appropriately descriptive) title. Teen drama is often done in an extremely annoying or clunky manner, so itâ€™s not one of my favorite things to read about. These books get [...]

Well, hereâ€™s another experiment with this format. I was a big fan of Lost when it first premiered, and even though I think itâ€™s fallen off lately, I still enjoy a lot of the plot devices and storytelling techniques they used. Hereâ€™s a couple series I think have that same â€œLost formulaâ€ – intertwining character [...]

In celebration of April Foolâ€™s day, this week weâ€™re going to be taking a look at Funnybooks someone with a sense of humor would love. Iâ€™ve picked a few series and authors who Iâ€™ve picked out some series, an OGN, a shorter work, and what feels like a humor anthology. Iâ€™ve included works with different [...]

Iâ€™ve seen many recommendation lists that suggest a number of series (or original graphic novels) to loan to a friend that might get him interested in comics. They usually contain titles as varied as Watchmen by Alan Moore, Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan, and Fell by Warren Ellis. These are good introductions [...]

Writers

The hardest part of writing well-known characters is that they belong to so many other people...At the crucial moment, my internal sense of how Batman would and wouldn't behave outweighed my own desires about plot and narrative. The key, when writing well-known heroes and heroines, is to trust that internal sense of character. And to trust your own sense of it, not the readers'.